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Dubs or subs: How should you watch foreign films?

The Oscar success of Parasite has sparked a debate on the best way to watch a movie that isn't in your native language

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The hardest Pride and Prejudice quiz ever

Are you a true super fan of the Jane Austen classic?

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Inside Cinema: Meet the Family

From Home Alone to Tokyo Story, families in cinema, in all their maddening, dysfunctional glory

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Michelangelo: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

Sona Datta uses TV archive to discover how TV has influenced our understanding of the great Italian artist

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Secrets of the Museum

From Beyonce’s ring and Queen Victoria’s coronet, the Victoria and Albert Museum has it all

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Life Cinematic

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"I love seeing someone’s masculinity shift "

Sam Taylor-Johnson, director of Fifty Shades of Grey and A Million Little Pieces, picks her favourite film moments

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"To do it in one shot is just ambitious, bordering on insane"

Edgar Wright, the director behind Hot Fuzz and Baby Driver, selects his perfect scenes

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"I think it’s certainly the greatest American film ever made"

Sir Sam Mendes, director of 1917 and American Beauty, chooses his most influential cinema clips

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The nude season

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Mary Beard: 'The West is obsessed with nudity'

The classicist and broadcaster examines art's obsession with the nude

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The Story of the Nude

Kate Bryan uses BBC archive to discover how TV has influenced our understanding of the nude

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Botticelli's Venus: The Making of an Icon

Sam Roddick explores one of the most celebrated paintings in western art

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Inside Cinema: Taking you to the heart of the movies

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Dancing Teens

Get into the groove with these iconic dance scenes from '80s teen movies

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Cosmetic Cinema

Characters conceal and reveal with their use of make-up

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Perfect Storms

Bring a brolly, as we explore how films simply don't do light drizzle

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George Orwell on BBC Sounds

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Nineteen Eighty-Four

Dramatisation of the classic dystopian novel with Christopher Eccleston

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Animal Farm

Tamsin Greig narrates this dramatised tale of the corrupting effect of power

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A Hanging

Orwell's powerful account of watching an execution in Burma in the 1920s

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Fresh talent from BBC Introducing Arts

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[BREATHE] [WAVE]

A soundscape that absorbs human noise into the mythic world of the wild coast

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Paper Skin

The dates, conversations and experiences that one girl shares with ‘sugar daddies’

New Creatives
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"They want everything to be down to your weight"

Experiences of body shaming and stigma during medical appointments

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Armando's Tale of Charles Dickens

Iannucci explores the qualities that make DIckens one of the best British writers

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Novels That Shaped Our World: Women

How women writers, women readers and women's lives have been central to the novel

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In Search of Dracula with Mark Gatiss

Why do we keep coming back to the vampire count?

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If the shoe fits

Philomena Epps considers the gendered connotations of footwear throughout history

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The impact of the AIDS crisis

From Robert Mapplethorpe to Keith Haring: remembering the artists affected by the 1980s epidemic

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Dora Carrington

Read about the passions and paintings of the bisexual artist affiliated with the Bloomsbury group

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The ideas shaping our lives today - with artists and thinkers in debates and interviews

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The arts series edited and presented by Alan Yentob

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